crazy

On a screen behind the lectern at the briefing, Doug McCuistion, the director of the Mars program, projected a poster with a halftime score on it: Mars 24, Earth 15. Of the thirty-nine spacecraft sent before Curiosity, less than forty per cent had reached the planet. "Mars is hard," he said.

 

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